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The Greenville times., 1887-11-19
A Talk With the Minister OF Liberia
CTimes-Democrat.)

Washington, Nov. l2.-Col. Taylor
of Kansas. who represents the United
States as minister at Liberia, is in the
city on leave of absence. Regarding
Liberia, he says;
There isn't horse or a COW or d
mule or tame animal of any kind, moi
single car, cart. or even q wheelbar.
row in the whole Republic. But tell
you they are organized; they're great
on organizing in Liberia. They have
u much bigger Cabinet than the Cabi-
net of President Cle7eand. Every
military company in the army has
about twenty-scven officers to two or
three privates. There are little over
1000 voters in the Republic, and fully
one-half of them are ofllce-holders. |
tell You Liberia is go-ahcad republic.
Before | went to Liberia was per-
feet crank on sending all the negroes
in America to Liberia, but since have
seen the place have changed my mind
nightly. | am not In favor of mis-
ccgenation or any mixing up of races.
believe that the negroes can get along
very well as negroes, just as the Irish
men get along as Irishmen, but no GO
ing home 10 Liberia for me-"
81 have submitted report Of 1l5
pages to the state department, and 1t
beats anything that Mark Twain ever
wrote, because what | saw beats any
thing that Mark Twain ever saw. Li-
bcra is a sight for gods and men,
The Greenville times., 1887-11-19
An ExCHAyGE or EYES.

A German. one of whose eyes was
severclya affected, went to an occulist
for treatment. An operation was ne.
cessary. and the eye removed. While
treating the socket pro1i0ns to trans
planting one from rabbit. one Of the
visual organs of the latter being pre-
pared and laid upon the table. a eat
stole in, and before any could prevent
had seized and eaten the rabbits eye.
No other rabbit being nj hand to fur
nish the eye the occullst waited until
his patient had recovered from the
state of anMsthesia necessary to the
operation. aud then explained the di-
lemma to him. yah. yah, de eat ate
mine eye up; SO. 50, veil put an eye of
dot katz in mine eve. Dot katz goit
mine eye. | viii haf dat kats eve The
occulist did 50 for the sake of expert
ment. when. strange to say. the opera
tion was successful aud the cats eye
worked perfectly. One day the Ger
man met friend who said:
"Ilans. hear dat YOU haf u katz eye
your head in. how ish dot =
Hans explained the circumstance
aud his friend said
"Oh. see. dat katz got your eye
and yen got DAT katz eye, yah, mt
how does do katz eve work. Can
you see shust so gOot as mid de oder
"Yah, shust So goot abvr night veI
wants to sheep, dot yerdamter ey'
shust lies awake looiSing for rats"
The Greenville times., 1887-11-19

The veteran General Wm. 5. lIarney
is closing up all his affairs in st. Louis
and will spend the rest of bis days in
Florida. He expects to make his home
either on Tampa Bay or the Caloosa-
hatchie river. There is a point on this
river about midway from Punta Rosa
and Fort Myers known as Harney's
Run. It is so called because some fifty
or more years ago, when General llar-
ney was a young Colonel, he was sur
prised in camp at night by band OF
Seminole Indians, under the leadership
of the famous Sam Jones. The attack
was 80 unexpected and sudden that. il
we remember Alright. only few Of the
soldiers escaped. General IIarney fled
from his tent clad only in his night
shirt. He was very closely pursued
by the hostiles, but his long legs and
superior wind enabled him to outstriI
and outlast his would-be scalpers
Billy Bowlegs, who was then only 9
Young warrior. was very fond, in aftel
years, of describing how swift of foot
was the tall General, who some twenty
years later was sent down to For
Myers to force or persuade Billy tC
quit the Everglades and go with hi
followers to the West. sam ,lQne
and Billy Bowlegs have long since
gone to the happy hunting grounds
and now the veteran soldier of tn,
Florida Indian wars of long ago i
pulling up his stakes in the West t.
make his home on the borders of ihi
Florida Everglades, where almost hi
earliest campaigning was had. Gene
raj Hafney is now in his goth year.
The Greenville times., 1887-11-19
The Chinese legations Doctor,
kansas City journal. J

A person much stared on Mt the Clio
yer reception was the doctor Of the
Chinese legation. He is a tall sallow,
thin-faced, angle-eyed man. the coun-
tcnance as inexpensive as that of a
mummy. lie wears lovely dress,
however--a petticoat of deep indigo
brocaded silk. with loose over-gar-
ment of silver gray. He is promiu-
ent figure in Washington, and can often
be seen sailing down the middle of the
street, queue flying out behind. sup
pose he is going to see some sick laun-
dryman, for | haven't heard of his
being called in by an American, pro-
fessionally, but once, and that was to
see a sick dog. He prescribed and
gave the poor animal immediate re-
lief. A knot of English physicians
gathered about the Chinese doctor at
the Glover reception.
ado you speak French Z" asked one
of the Englshmen.
The Chinaman shook his head.
ado you speak German" said an
other.
"No; speak Engleese," replied the
Chinaman, whereupon there was dis
may and CONSERVATION in the ranks of
the English, and they fell to, at once.
in their native tongue.
The Greenville times., 1887-11-19
a. intudnuvian Survivor.


"AA'NAs -AtA-kA, AiEt lf~--
In conversation with Mr.D. H. Sur.-
mer, formerly of Denver, Colorado.
wlro came out his fall with the hIst
4. party of miners from Forty-NIile Creek.
We learned that the living mastodons
near the headwaters of White River
was not the mere tabrications of the
northern furriers. but that the Stick
Indians had positively told him that
not later than i've years ago such an
animal had been seen by them. One
Of the Indians said that while hunting
one day in that unknown section he
came across IA. Immense track. sunk to
a depth of several inches in the moss,
and from the description, as the In
dian marked it out for him in the
sand. it much resembled All elephants
track, and was larger around than a
barrel. Upon striking il, the Indian
followed up the curious trail, which.
TO all appearance, was very fresh, and
tracking from'One immense stride to the
other for some miles he came in full
view of his game. And what game
The hunter gave one look, then turned
and fled as though pursued by the evil
one. These Indians, as class, are the
bravest of hunters. and with no other
weapon than the spear, win attack and
slay the st. Elias grizzly. But the
immense proportions of this new kind
of game both startled and filled this |
hunter, as brave as he was, with fear,
and he imagined his only safety lay in
swift and Immediately flight. lie de-
scribcd II as being larger than Harpers,
the post-traders' store. with great shin
ing yellowish tusks. and a mouth large
enough to swallow him at one gulp.
lie said that the animal was undoubt-
edly the same as the huge bones scat
tered over shat section. If such an
animal is now In existence, and Mr..
Summers has no reason TO doubt the
veracity OF the Indian, as other lndi-
ans, aud also Mr.. Harper, had con-
ilrmed II, they inhabt section of very
high altitude, and one but,rarely Wis
tied by human beings, and these only
by Indians. We also have no reason
to doubt the Indians tale, for at no very
recent date the Yukon country was
inhabited by these Indians, and hun
dreds of these massive skeletons found
strewn along the creeks are the silent
but truthful witnesses. On Forty-Mile
Greek bones can be found projecting
partly from the sands and among the
drift wood along the stream. On
creek below this the skeletons are quite
numerous.
The Greenville times., 1887-11-19

"lIere | bring you piece Of cloth
for pair of pantaloons, says cnsto-
mcr.
The tailor measured it. ut is. not
enough
the customer gathers up the cloth
and carries II to another tailor.
"Is there enough of this piece to
make me a pair Of pantaloonsT
@Yes, sir; day after tomorrow | viii
send them to you by my son.
The boy comes with the pantaloOn.
two days later. The customer notes
that the youth Is wearing a jacket
made out Of the same piece Of cloth.
boy. how is this thai the other tail
or said that there wasnOt enough clotl
for pair Of pantaloons. aud yoru
father has not only made my panta
looms, but also a jacket for youY
"Sir the son of the other tailor is {
much bigger boy than ! aiH.n
The Greenville times., 1887-11-19
Rankin County Members.
Editor GreenYille Times

fnllOT ITceufnlt lliits
You were misled by an editorial in
the last Brandon Republican in stating
that Rankin county would be represent
ed in the next Legislature by two col
ored Republicans. This is a mistake
Mai. l.. II. Babb. who leads the ticket,
was a gallant Confederate soldier, and
bears upon his face the indelible mark
made by fragment of q shell. lie Is
an educated gentleman and forcible
fluent speaker, and would be useful
member if his political opinions were
not so badly and abominably mixed
We hope when he takes his seat and
consults with many conservative and
patriotic members, he will modify then
and become more liberal, prudent and
discreet. lie is superior in national
and acquired ability to the majority o.
those who are generally selected east
of Pearl river.
The other member, II. L. Jackson, i
Il colored Republican and harmless.
The Greenville times., 1887-11-19
Chalmers "Relurnlng BOaFd."
[Memphis Avalanche

Austin, Miss, Nov. 12.-Gen. Chal-
mers, in his speech here last week, in
behalf of Miller, the non-political can
didate for district-attorney, advising
the negroes to place one of their num-
Der at the polls TO keep tally, SO they
would not be counted out. even ifthey
had to notch down each vote cast for
Miller ON stick, as they would keep
count of corn that was being measured
in the crib. This precinct cast 12l
votes for Slack and / for Miller. So
the returning board have, to-day, sent
Gen. Chalmers the stick advised to be
kept with one notch in IL for Miller, all
that he received at this box. No fraud
can be claimed as the Republicans had
ono man as Inspector, who guarded
with Jealous care the entire proceed
Jugs, and with only few exceptions
every one voted an open ticket, souIe-
thing that the negro was never known
TO do before for straight Democratic
nominees when there was opposition
backed by men like Chalmels.
The Greenville times., 1887-11-19

Messrs. Cannon and O'lIara. the gen
tlemanly levee contractors have com
menced work on the new levee, and
from the way work is now progressing.
we predict it will be finished ut an
early day. These gentlemen thorough
ly understand how to construct levees
az their record plainly shows. and when
they haye completed this one, we ven-
ture TO say no one will be able to de
tett a flaw in it.-Mayersvile Specta-
tpt
The Greenville times., 1887-11-19


The Luna telephone Office rang up
this office for the first time, on Friday
last. at 4:55 o'clock exactly. OF course
The new enterprise attracts everybody.
from its novelty. We pre lead to be-
lieve that it Is success, and that the
financial results will soon be very sat
isfactory. The work on the line from
here to Ford's progresses rapidly. The
holes are dug as far down as Cave
.Dohnsons, and the poles are all cut and
distributed. Mir. /. NJ Worthington
has the contract to get them out, and
is doing il rapidly. The line will be
put up from Luna to Arkansas City as
soon as II fUmes.-Chicot Chronicle.
The Greenville times., 1887-11-19

Miss Ida Ward has received another
invoice of seasonable hats and milli-
merry goods.
The Greenville times., 1887-11-19

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Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-10-29
THE POLICY OF PARDON.
In Behalf of the Prisoners Con-
demned as Anarchists.

A known opponent of the doctrine
(eXpropriation) and of the method EARNED
forCe) ascribed to the condemned, and
personally a stranger to them. | protest
against hanging the dead Karl Marx by
the necks of Spies, Lingg & Co., for
reasons both egoist and altruist.
l. A local suspension of the civic
rights to liberty of speech and press in
the open propagation of ideas, never
mind what, is infractiOn of constitutional
law for the whole United States, and
menaces every citizen of this republic
with an inquisitorial despotism.
2. My personal safety, yours, ours,
theirs, is compromised by an innovative
legislation and retroactive application of
this, which condemns one man for the
crime of another unknown to the court
which condemns, and with no other re-
lation to the condemned than the arbi-
trary opinion of jury that something
said or written by the former might have
influenced the action of the latter.
B. | object to generalizing the princi.
pie of yicarious atouement, in punishing
men against whom no completely with
murderers has been proven, for the pro
miscuous slaughter of citizens by a police,
in direct contravention of their mayo
instructions. This notorious olrense,
though provoked by the unknown bomb
thrower, was none the less murderous,
both from the evidence of its premedlta-
ton (see Barton, Simonson and other
witnesses, and from its being directed
against an unnamed, unresisting and au-
thorized assemblage.
4. | echo the French Government in
protesting against confounding political
disorders with personal crimes. 1t is
equally known and avowed that revolu-
tionary violence was contemplated by
the prisoners, as that no crime was COM
mitted by them. The open announce
ment of their purposes averts the sus.
picion of conspiracy. If dangerous, they
for years had given warning and might
at any time have been suppressed by
Legislative enactments.
j. Even in admitting the validity of
Illinois legislation, of the procedures of
its courts in such cases, not only would
thousands equally condemnable. but the
weight of accusation would fall upon
others than the condemned, viz: upon
the Lehr and Weir Nerein which for
years previous to the international prop.
uganda by the Alarm aud Arbeiter
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-10-29
CA IRA.

1t IS not our purpose to attempt
at this time an analysis Of Goa ira,
or Danton in the French Revolu-
tion," but to announce the advent of
Laurence Gronlund'snew book which
bears that title. We have already
published his introduction to the
book and that should be sufficient to
create a desire to read Que of the
most important works from the pen
of modern writer's. Its Importance
at this time of revolutionary thought
is indicated in the following lines
Up. 24D;
1.-THE evolution of this capitalist system
towards catastrophe is truth, but ii
is not the ,choie trttth. For, fortunately,
side by side with these destructive tend
encies there are everywhere around Ms
constructive tendencies at work-this is
the other half of the truth"
TO impress upon the readers "the
other half of the truth" and to
awaken a sense of duty among the
brightest minds of the Anglo-Sayon
race is a mission which this book is
admirably adapted to accomplish,
for it is to them that the author
principally addresses himself. That
it will be widely read is % foregonc
conclusion.
The enterprising firm of Lee 4
Shepard, Boston, are the publishers.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-10-29
ALARM ED.

The Hartford Snnday J0Wnal
says that the citizens of Chicago are
alarmed at the "approach Of the day
fixed for retributiyc justice to be
metcd out to the men who defed the
laws" etc, etc. AS to defiance of
law, we differ with our capltol-istic
contemporary. The condemned did
nothing more than express opinions,
according to the guarantee of the
Constitution. As to the alarm of
Chicago, it depends upon what the
.J0urua2 considers the "citizens. F."
If it means the Bontields, the Garys,
and the corrupt gang of political
heeleG %Ac are doing the bidding of
the still more rtprehonsible capital
lists, then we are inclined to believe
the J0arnal is correct. They have
reason to be alarmed at the crime
they are about to have committed in
the name of claw and order" But
if the journal means the citizens
who are working their miserable
lives out in the factories or seeking
work to keep from starv alton, we
don't see why they should be alarmed.
They have done nothing wrong, and
their conscienccs need not be
troubled. The Hartford Sundag
Journal is simply one of large
number of newspapers whose editors
are so un-American that they ignore
the principles of democracy.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-10-29
A LONDON OPINION.

The news of the Socialist Dis
turbance' in New York demands
explanation. That the American
police should break up Socialist
meeting with the most brutal vio-
lence is nothing remarkable, unfor-
tunately, even setting aside their ex-
plolts at Chicago, for they are on the
whole the most brutal of all the de-
tenders of law and order. But what
explanation can there be of Mr..
Henry Georges followers attacking
the Socialists except that that gentle
man has rated and joined the Capt.
t.llst camp? Definitely as we So
clalists differ from Mr.. George, this
would be a great disappointment to
some of us, since he has always been
put forward as a specially honest
man and lover of progress in all
forms. - William Morris, In London
C0mnl0HWeal.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-10-29
NOT ANARCHISTS.

The Syracuse Lab0rer is mistaken
when it insists that those who SYM
pathizc with the condemned men of
Chicago would tell the truth if they
said that they sympathized with an
archism. No Socialist can sympa-
thize with anarchism, but every one
ought to take sides with the seven
men who were unjustly condemned
and do what he can to avert the ca
lamity of their murder. We cannot
understand why these people are
called, or call themselves, anarch-
lists. We have read Spies book, and
Judging from that he is not an an
archist. The fact that he was OPP
posed to the wanton murder of work
lngmen by Pinkerton thugs and po-
lice would Indicate that he was not
an anarchist. If he were an anarch-
list, what objection could he have to
anar,hical practices? To advocate
the reduction of the working hours
to eight per day; to denounco the
gang of cutthroats known as the
"Pinkerton Protective Police; to
urge the workingmen to organize:
these are not the tactics of anarchists.
But even if these men advocated
resistance to Pinkerton's hireling
murderers by force and arms; even
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-10-29

Zeitund had organized for the purpose
of resisting infraction by the police of
the right of assemblage, and had threat
ened them with dynamite bombs.
These earlier agitators and their Trades
against capitalism We're despised and toll
Grated. Now, men who have neither
perpetrated nor countenanced violence
against persons, but only against private
property, cranks, to be sure, whose pro-
Jects were extravagantly beyond their
means of execution, are inculpated for
the oIense of their predecessors.
| denounce the lawless spirit of their
prosecutors, quoting the words of George
Emery, of Chicago, to Mrs. Back, the
wife of Counselor w. p. Black: 81 don't
care a snap whether there is law forit or
not. These men shall be hanged. |
want them hanged" Here is an AFRO
gance of constituencies power very
capable of hiring an assassin to blow up
some of its own mercenary police, in
order to make pretext for legal perse-
cution of its enemies. EDGEwoRTn.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-10-29

If they did prophesy revolution as
the result of capitalist tyanny and
injustice; even if they did believe
the Declaration of independence and
the Constitution were more than
empty phrases-and worthy of up
holding by "force, if necessary"
they advocated, prophesied and be-
lieved no more than we and other
American freemen have given ex-
preston to in these columns and
upon the platform in public meet
ings, and we are anything but an
archists or sympathizers with anarch-
ism.
II the lives of these men must be
sacrificed to once for all establish
the right to free speech and free
assembly, they will ever be regarded
as martyrs to a noble cause and their
names will live in history, while the
name of Arnold will stand for loyalty
and purity beside the names of Bon
field, Gary, and the wretched crew
composed Of the jury, the police and
the porjurers, who were the tools of
the conspiracy to kill the brave
Seven.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-10-29
AHA! YOU RASCALS

This is the way the New York
Times gives vent to the fears of the
petit b0urgeOiis class the mugwumps,
80 to speak:
"The growth of Trust monopolies
does not seem to alarm the Socialists, but
rather to encourage them, if their opin-
ions are fairly represented in a book
which one of them is soon to publish.
To him the Trusts only hasten the com
ing of the day when private control will
have to give way to public control along
the whole line Undoubtedly the multi
plication of these combinations, by which
industries and certain branches of bust
ness are monopolized and competition is
destroyed not only disturbs the minds of
thoughtful citizens who are loyal to our
institutions, but also raises the hopes of
the unbalanced SIC who are looking for
social revolution. The attack upon
these monopolies through the Legisla-
lures and the courts has been too long
delayed"
Indeed But who was instru-
mental in the delay? =. Now, squirm,
you rascals, and study well the
prophets whom you have rcviIod-
"thc unbalanced"
But the Times is right: Socialists
are not alarmed, partly because they
are not surprised by the phenomena
which evidently alarm the control
lers of the Times. We shall take oc-
cason to look att Times again-it
is a representative sheet-a sort Of
bourgeoiS thermometer.
How very consistent it is, though,
to want to prevent men from doing
what they please with their o,ch
property without trespassing on the
property of others
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-10-29
FOR "SClIWANZpOLTTIK."

The LabOr Standard is not a po-
litical paper in any sense; it is la
Dor paper. It's advice to working
men has always been and is now not
to bind themselves to any political
party but to cast their votes for can
didates without regard to parties
who pledge themselves to promote
the labor measures of the labor or
CARNATIONS. This is independent
political action but not party action.
This kind Of action would appeal to
the sense of interest of workmen of
all parties, would band them togeth-
er for good measures, would prevent
discord, jealousy and craving after
office and save waste of strength.
The object of political action
should be the passage of good laws.
This end can be accomplished by
using our balance Of power at the
primaries and the polls. BY any
other kind of action we simply dis
courage our followers, show weak
ness, make enemies and accomplish
nothing. -Paters0n Lobor Standard.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-10-29

a jewel in the crown of Pluto. The
devil heat his furnace as hot for in
fants not span long as for sinners
old in iniquity, and man might as
well die for sheep as lamb. But
suppression OF free speech by hang
ing few speakers will only close the
valve through which extra pressure
Of discomfort finds vent. Men can
not be convinced that they are wrong
by hanging their friends for telling
them they are right. Ij'inSted Press.